Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1896 — COREA’S CRUEL KING. [ARTICLE]

COREA’S CRUEL KING.

He Dlsmlesra llitt Ai misters .and Order* Klskt of Them ltoheadud. Sail Francisco, March 6.-—'The steani•et- China has arrived from Yokohama, bringing news of another coup d’etat -on an extensive scale at Seoul, Corea. On February 10 a detachment of Rus•.sian marines, numbering 127, arrived from Seoul for Jir.sen. The Corean king and the crown prince went into tho Russian legation and formed a new government, dismissing all former cabinet oflicers. Premier Kim Hong Tsuh -and seven other cabinet ministers, known as pro-Japanese statesmen, were beheaded and their corpses dragged the streets.